Grocery Operations

Buyers and merchandisers are keeping frozen pies, cakes, pastries and other baked sweets before consumers, despite the category's uneven sales.Nowadays, in-store bakeries are getting the lion's share of new products, merchandising and advertising. But astute use of advertised price reductions, buy-one-get-ones and multiple pricing, plus endcap displays and product tie-ins -- mostly during the core

byRussell Redman